Oscar nominee Richard Burton is a burnt-out British agent who refuses to ""come in from the cold"" to take a desk job-but instead launches into the most dangerous assignment of his career stalking East German agent Oskar Werner. John Le Carre's best-selling novel provides the basis for this breathtaking thriller of espionage intrigue crosses and double crosses. First-rate performances from the entire cast are matched by a tension-packed and brilliantly plotted screenplay with masterful direction from Martin Ritt.
15th Century Florence. The House of Medici, one of the most powerful Florentine families and bankers to the Pope. Cosimo (Richard Madden), who has long abandoned his dreams of becoming an artist, inherits the bank when his father Giovanni (Dustin Hoffman) mysteriously collapses. Harbouring the dangerous secret that his father was murdered, Cosimo must fight to protect all his family has worked so hard to attain. As head of the Signoria, with attacks coming from all sides and war looming, he needs to decide whether to side with the nobility, as Giovanni would have done, or to step out from his father's shadow. Full of intrigue and suspense, Medici: Masters of Florence follows the twists and turns through war, plague and even exile as the family attempts to hold on to power. Contains the following special features: The Making Of, Set Designing, The Look of the Century, Picture Gallery.
In the vastly overrated 1998 book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, author Peter Biskind puts the blame for Hollywood's blockbuster mentality at least partially on Steven Spielberg's box-office success with this adaptation of Peter Benchley's bestselling novel, Jaws. But you can't blame Spielberg for making a terrific movie, which Jaws definitely is. The story of a Long Island town whose summer tourist business is suddenly threatened by great-white-shark attacks on humans bypasses the potboiler trappings of Benchley's book and goes straight for the jugular with beautifully crafted, crowd-pleasing sequences of action and suspense supported by a trio of terrific performances by Roy Scheider (as the local sheriff), Richard Dreyfuss (as a shark specialist), and particularly Robert Shaw (as the old fisherman who offers to hunt the shark down). The sequences on Shaw's boat--as the three of them realize that in fact the shark is hunting them--are what entertaining moviemaking is all about. It's odd that the cornerstone of the new edition is a 10-year-old documentary. Shot for the laserdisc release (the unofficial 20th anniversary edition), the 2-hour "The Making of Jaws" is an excellent telling of how this film was made and became the top grossing film (and launched the career of extras filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau). An hour-long edited version appeared on the 25th anniversary DVD. Here's what else different from the 25th anniversary DVD: an interesting a 9-minute vintage featurette shot for British TV that has never been seen in the States; a few additions to the extensive "Jaws Archives" (production stills, storyboards and the like), and a few new fragments in the deleted scene roll. The image is the same excellent transfer as before but this time you can get the DTS and Dolby sound on the same disc plus a nice 60-page photo journal. A seaworthy set but hardly worth trading in your old DVD. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com
Mock-gothic children's drama set in Victorian England based on the novel by Joan Aiken. Bonnie (Emily Hudson) and her cousin Sylvia (Aleks Darowska) are left at home in Willoughby Hall while their parents travel abroad with only the servants and the prowling wolves for company. Things get even worse for the girls when evil-looking governess Miss Slighcarp (Stephanie Beacham) mysteriously turns up at the Hall bearing news that Lord and Lady Willoughby have gone missing overseas and that she will henceforth be in charge of the house and the children's education.
Preceding Bonnie and Clyde by a year, Arthur Penn's (Mickey One) acclaimed film boasts enviable pedigree produced by the legendary Sam Spiegel, with a screenplay by Lillian Hellman from the novel by Horton Foote, a rousing score by John Barry, and a stellar cast of the hottest stars of the day (including Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, Angie Dickinson and James Fox). The story of an escaped con making his way back to the corrupt Texas town and the people who sent him to prison, The Chase is a telling indictment of violence in American society. A seminal work which is ripe for rediscovery. Extras 4K restoration from the original negative Original mono audio Audio commentary with film historians Lem Dobbs, Julie Kirgo, and Nick Redman Step Back and Let Him Go: Arthur Penn on The Chase' (1996, 26 mins): previously unseen interview footage from Paul Joyce's documentary Marlon Brando: The Wild One Cut to The Chase' (2017, 24 mins): a new interview with renowned actor James Fox, conducted by Richard Ayoade Matthew Penn on The Chase' (2017, 9 mins): a new interview with director Arthur Penn's son Super 8 version: original cut-down home cinema presentation Isolated Score: experience John Barry's original soundtrack music Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes this noir-style psychological thriller starring Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett. When a manipulative carnival man (Cooper) teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist (Blanchett) to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society, he learns that his new partner in crime might be his most formidable opponent yet. NIGHTMARE ALLEY is directed by del Toro, who co-wrote the film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
Available for the first time on DVD! 'Down And Out In Beverly Hills' is a remake of Jean Renoir's magnificent film 'Boudu Saved from Drowning' (Boudu sauv des eaux). Bette Midler and Richard Dreyfuss star as Barbara and Dave Whiteman a nouveau riche Beverly Hills couple whose entire household is turned upside down with one act of uncharacteristic generosity. On a typically sunny afternoon Dave spies Jerry (Nick Nolte) a homeless man attempting to drown himself in their swimmi
An approaching Alien spaceship is detected on monitoring equipment at UNIT HQ, where the Brigadier is entertaining two visitors - Chinn, a civil servant making a security inspection, and Bill Filer, an American agent sent to discuss the threat of the Master. The Ship lands in England and the UNIT team, joined by Hardiman and Winser from the nearby Nuton power station, meet its occupants: beautiful golden-skinned humanoids called Axons. The Axons claim that their ship, Axos, is damaged and that they need time in which to repair it. In return, they offer Axonite, a substance that can cause animals to grow to enormous sizes and thus end food shortages. The Doctor is suspicious, and rightly so: Axos, Axonite and the Axons - whose true appearance is hideous - are all part of a single parasitic entity brought to Earth by the Master to feed on the planet's energy. The Doctor manages to materialise his TARDIS, with the Master on board, at the centre of Axos. He offers to link the two ships together to make one giant time machine, on condition that Axos in return helps him to take revenge on the Time Lords for exiling him to earth. This is merely a trick, however, and Axos is locked in a time loop from which it can never escape. The Doctor returns to Earth in the TARDIS, where he reluctantly admits to the Brigadier that the Master may also have escaped.
Law And Order: Special Victims Unit is back with Season 5! Created by Emmy Award-winning producer Dick Wolf Law And Order: Special Victims Unit follows the investigations of Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) a seasoned seen-it-all veteran of the unit and his tough but compassionate partner Detective Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) as they try to solve the city's most heinous crimes. Directing their intense efforts is Captain Donald Cragen (Dann Florek) whose tough but supportive approach guides the entire squad - which includes Detectives John Munch (Richard Belzer) and Odafin Tutuola (Ice-T) forensic psychiatrist George Huang (B.D. Wong) and ADA Casey Novak ( - through the dangerous challenges they face every day.
Destined for cult status, this provocative thriller offers a grab bag of genres (gangster movie, comedy, sexy romance, crime caper) and tops it all off with steamy passion between lesbian ex-con Corky (Gina Gershon) and a not-so-ditzy gun moll named Violet (Jennifer Tilly), who meets Corky and immediately tires of her mobster boyfriend (Joe Pantoliano). Desperate to break away from the Mob's influence and live happily ever after, the daring dames hatch a plot to steal $2 million of Mafia money. Their scheme runs into a series of escalating complications, until their very survival depends on split-second timing and criminal ingenuity. Simultaneously violent, funny and suspenseful, Boundis sure to test your tolerance for bloodshed but the film is crafted with such undeniable skill that several critics(including Roger Ebert) placed it on their top-10 lists for 1996. --Jeff Shannon
Spooks: Series 7
From the creators of Wallace and Gromit This is the complete collection of all 40 sheeptacular episodes from Series One! Join mischievous Shaun and the rest of the flock for mayhem in the meadow chaos in the countryside and pandemonium in the pasture as Shaun and his friends try to pull the wool over the eyes of the farmer''s trusty sheepdog Bizter! Join in and bleat with Shaun The Sheep! Featuring 40 barnstorming episodes: Disc One - Shape Up With Shaun 1.Shape Up With Shaun 2. Bathtime 3. Fetching 4. Take Away 5. Still Life 6. Scrumping 7. Little Sheep Of Horrors 8. The Kite Disc Two - Off The Baa 1. Off The Baa! 2. Timmy In A Tizzy 3. Buzz Off Bees 4. Things That Go Bump 5. Mower Mouth 6. Fleeced 7. Shaun Shoots The Sheep 8. Mountains Out Of Molehills Disc Three - Saturday Night Shaun 1. Saturday Night Shaun 2. Stick With Me 3. Shaun The Farmer 4. Sheep On The Loose 5. Tidy Up 6. Snore-Worn Shaun 7. Camping Chaos 8. If You Can''t Stand The Heat Disc Four - Abracadabra 1. Abracadabra 2. The Bull 3. Who's the Mummy? 4. Hiccups 5. Heavy Metal Shaun 6. Troublesome Tractor 7. Sheepwalking 8. Save The Tree Disc Five - Wash Day 1. Wash Day 2. Tooth Fairy 3. The Farmer''s Niece 4. The Visitor 5. Helping Hound 6. Shaun Encounters 7. Big Top Timmy 8. Bitzer Puts His Foot In It
Sunhill's finest fight crime in ITV's classic police drama series.
Battlestar Galactica the definitive battle between the last surviving human colony and an evil robotic race - an epic journey of intergalactic survivors in search of a distant and unknown planet `earth'. This seven-disc Complete Epic Series Box Set features all 24 x 45 min episodes of the original series. Episodes Comprise: 1. Saga of a Star World - Part 1 2. Saga of a Star World - Part 2 3. Saga of a Star World - Part 3 4. The Lost Planet of the Gods - Part 1 5. The Lost
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur and Rita Hayworth star in this classic drama directed by Howard Hawks. As the San Luis ship docks into the port of Barranca to deliver supplies, cabaret singer Bonnie Lee (Arthur) seizes the opportunity to take a look around. While exploring the town she meets a group of American pilots who risk their lives on a daily basis to fly cargo planes over the Andes. As Bonnie gets to know pilot Geoff (Grant) and sparks between them fly, Geoff faces the difficult decision of whether to commit to his new love, giving up his one passion in life: his job.
Those who survive the ghost ship are better off dead! A cruise ship heading for the Caribbean crashes by a mysterious vessel leaving seven plucky survivors to crawl onboard the unholy ghost ship. Soon they find they're on heading for an unknown destination with something hellbent on destroying them all!
An early work from director Luc Besson, Subway is a dark and highly stylised picture which concerns an enigmatic safecracker (Christopher Lambert) hiding out in the Paris Metro system. While living in the underground and eluding both gangsters and Metro police he meets up with a group of colourful and quirky subterranean inhabitants eager to help him and start a rock band. All the while the safecracker blackmails a rich woman (Isabelle Adjani) with whom he is in love. Meant to be a tongue-in-cheek commentary on urban life, the film works better as a light freewheeling entertainment, with well-constructed fast-paced action sequences and a breezy sense of humour about itself. Subway is an intriguing diversion and a chance to see the cutting-edge of contemporary French moviemaking. --Robert Lane
John Wayne produces directs and stars in this larger than life chronicle of one of the most remarkable events in American history. At the Alamo - a crumbling adobe mission - 185 exceptional men joined together in a sacred pact: they would stand firm against an army of 7 000 and willingly give their lives for freedom. Filmed entirely in Texas only a few miles from the site of the actual battle The Alamo is a visually stunning and historically accurate celebration of courage and h
Rene Zellweger, Catherine Zeta Jones and Richard Gere star in the big screen version of the hit musical about a nighclub star who finds herself on Chicago's death row and recruits the town's slickest lawyer.
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